Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi talks to President Obama through an interpreter on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, September 25

… with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff

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President Obama answers a question from a reporter about the controversial finish in the Monday night NFL game when a touchdown ruling by replacement officials on the game’s final play gave the Seattle Seahawks a 14-12 victory over the Green Bay Packers

TY, Hf! I’m calling it quits on racing now as my hands are full of my awards…..or I’m imagining they are since CC has been so busy tabulating our completely AND SEVERELY amazing day. Have you noticed she’s now putting all of us in each pic? Isn’t that so sweet? :oops:

TY, Magapie, and no, I don’t have a T-1. (Special wires would be cheating. :grin::grin::grin: ) I use my laptop which travels up and down the stairs with me and I have wireless connection. The only other ingredient is monster time . ;)

Can’t stand the show but POTUS and FLOTUS were very relaxed and super lovely. POTUS got all his points in skillfully, as usual. It was sweet to hear FLOTUS talk about retracing their honeymoon trail once their out of office, starting in SF and driving down the central CA coast, some of the most beautiful vistas in the world.

Yes, ‘a completely amazing day’ it was, Chips. Thank you for making it so much fun for all of us!

And, everyone, please help bring the message to as many as possible that, in_deed, Mitt Romney has personally profited from slave labor and even enabled it by outsourcing American jobs. So, not only did he gather personal wealth, he destroyed good paying American jobs to make it easier for Chinese factory owners to exploit their workers by reducing competition in the market place.

Oh man I missed the whole dang wonderful day ~ power off.. but on again now yippee…. thank you thank you thank you so much Chips for having all the goodness here… I so so wanted to see POTUS speech to the UN.. ! So extra special thanks :)

No problem. I saw this article linked to on Twitter and was just getting ready to post it. One of my huge concerns has been the voting machines. Maryland is a blue state and the President won in 2008 with 82% of the vote. We have the machines here and we don’t get a receipt. It just seems so easy to hack these machines or tamper with the count and unless you are in a bright blue state, you may never know.

Tally had posted a petition here on TOD a few days ago with regard to getting rid of these electronic voting machines and having paper ballots instead. I’m trying to locate where she posted, but so far no luck. :(

I’ve spent my day working on this project and organizing my mp3s. I expect that Obama was magnificent as usual, and will spend the rest of the night getting caught up. Has Romney made another gaffe today?

Oooooo, thanks Chips for such a lovely buffet of TOD goodness awaiting me at the end of the day. Looks like my President handled his packed day with ease, charm and brilliance — as usual. I’m gonna dive into the clips right now…

In Vandalia, Ohio, today, after Mitt Romney thanked running mate Paul Ryan for his stump speech, rally attendees instinctively began chanting “Ryan, Ryan,” as rally attendees are wont to do.
Feeling left out, Romney demanded the crowd quit chanting wrong, and proceeded to demonstrate the correct way to chant at his rally.

“Romney must be asked directly: was he one of 5000 rich Americans given amnesty for using Swiss accounts to evade taxes?” (links to article about former UBS banker awarded $104 million for blowing the whistle on US investors who evaded taxes with their Swiss bank accounts):

Romney must be asked directly: was he one of 5000 rich Americans given amnesty for using Swiss accounts to evade taxes? http://t.co/xLLp2rl5

Thank you Chips for those amazing pictures/videos and all. I stayed up until almost 2am in my world last night listening to the UN speech – it was a world winner. Now it will take me most of my day to catch up on the rest – and I have chores and errands to run – mmm – might have to eat out this evening.

They are just not that into Mitt Romney. I was watching Ed were the crowd started shouting Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. Then Mitt had to say Romney, Ryan, Romney Ryan. So he has to tell the crowd to chant his name too. Poor pitiful rich Mitt.

‘ Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, more than doubled their investment income from foreign sources in 2011 versus 2010, including some sources in tax havens around the world, according to tax returns released by the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign.
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That means the Romneys last year derived just over a quarter of their income from non-U.S. investments, such as funds and entities in Bermuda, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the Cayman and British Virgin Islands, the returns showed.
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While the Romneys’ tax strategies are legal, their large share of foreign-sourced income highlights the difference between their tax returns and those of average Americans.

Asked why the Romneys’ foreign income had grown, a spokeswoman for the Republican candidate declined to comment. ‘

I loved the interview of POTUS and FLOTUS on the view. Mrs. O was in a great playful mood, but I would be too if I was married to PBO :smile:
When Elisabeth was talking about how it’s hard to ask them the tough questions because she “really” likes them, did y’all see Michelle’s face? She had that “girl please” face and then she changed it to a smile. It was super quick and you would have to be staring and grinning at the tv like a fool, like I was, LOL! But my auntie saw it too. We just laughed.

I caught that too. I love how the FLOTUS is just so real. She admits that she doesn’t have the temperment for politics. She’s a Southside of Chicago girl with no patience for the B.S. Being an East Oakland girl myself, I definitely can relate.

The ignorance of some Americans is astounding. Native American is an ethnicity and just like other ethnicities Native Americans come in all colors. There are white, black, brown, red and yellow Native Americans. The same is true of Latinos. How about republican, Tom Cole —a member of the Chickasaw Nation— the only registered Native American in Congress? He’s white. I am so sick of Scott Brown saying that Warren can’t be Native American because she’s white.

I live in Grand Ronde, Oregon and live on the reservation. I am an enrolled 1/16th Grand Ronde Confederated Tribe Member. I do not look like a full blooded Native American and there are many here that even have blonde hair and blue eyes. When you get down to a lesser blood line the “look” is not as evident. I am the end of the bloodline in my tribe for my family.

When I traveled to New Zealand I found the Maori Tribe there is counted if they have any measure of blood at all. Our tribe was disbanded by the government from when I was around 8yrs old till I was in my late 30s when several tribal members worked hard to get the tribe restored. I lost many years of my Indian heritage but am learning about it now.

There are many Whites in this area that will say disparaging things about the Native Americans. I am White also and it embarasses me to hear this. I quickly set those saying negative things right and think I embarass them when they find out I am Native American. I am 15/16ths White (mostly Irish) and only 1/16th Native American. Two years ago I went to Ireland to find out my great grandfather came to the US to fight Indians for the Army. His son married a Native American. That seemed like an inner battle. LOL Scott Brown’s campaign was racist in acting like they did about Elizabeth Warren’s heritage. Her people were here first.

wow what a touching, peace making speech President Obama made at the UN.. I especially love: The people around the world have a “common heartbeat”. It was all so good… his love & desire for all the people of the world to have freedom & aspirations .. we have our own Gandhi right here, imo.

So, I’m watching Love Actually on Cinemax, a movie BTW that I have on DVD, but I love too much not to watch when it comes on.

Is it just me or is Love Actually the movie that kinda started all these recent slew of movies where there are like 20 A-B list actors all in one ensemble piece centered around a certain holiday? I mean there was that Valentine’s Day movie, that New Year’s Eve movie… Looking back on it now, Love Actually had alot of established big “British” film/tv names and up and comers (Keira Knightley was in it, it was the movie she was doing before she did the Pirates of the Caribbean movie) and even some American established A-listers and up and comers (Elisha Cuthbert and January Jones both had bid parts in it)

I am too young to remember, but what other older movies have there been that involved all as many big named stars in it prior to Love Actually that was a rom/com and holiday themed movie, that wasn’t like a period piece or something?

Now see, in that 17th picture down, Chips haz skewed the caption: it should read something like “PBO is looking at Pamela from Seattle”.. (don’t know how in the heck he would know me from a bar of soap, but hey, a girl can dream! Right?) :lol:”

Wow. Just read Roger Simon’s “Paul Ryan vs. The Stench”. It almost made me forget my sinuses. I mean, if fucking POLITICO is openly mocking both Romney and Ryan, the blossom is off the turd. I’m still not sure if the piece is snark or not — Ryan going around calling Romney “Stench” — but if it is at all accurate, wow.

On a related note, Obama HQ on Crenshaw called looking for volunteers. The great thing is that they’re open 9-9. I might head on down there on Friday when I’m off. #Repeat1936

Paul Ryan has apparently taken to calling Mitt Romney “The Stench” behind his back. You heard right. THE STENCH. It is now trending on twitter. It’s not even October yet and Romney-Ryan is a clusterfuck.

Mr. Dotster’s fine, keeps hanging around, probably because he needs me to pour his cereal in a bowl. Are you still interested in stealing him from me? There are days when he is available, but I have to warn you he talks a lot—–so much that sometimes you’ll have to say “Shhhhhhhh. Stop talking.” :) But he will take out the garbage once a week, so there’s that. And he’s pretty cute.

I;m bummed. My daughter is in BG and couldn’t get tickets because she is scheduled to teach at 1:30 tomorrow (she’s a grad assistant) and the University has a policy that strictly forbids cancelling class for political events! Plus she had early classes and couldn’t line up for tickets. She only heard about this from me, didn’t see any signs on campus, but the tickets still sold out :) BG is a little bit blue – saw quite a few Obama signs around in ’08

As the POTUS ages I think he looks more and more like his grandfather does in the photo of the POTUS with him on the beach. The shape of their faces, their smiles, and their ears (of course) look so similar.

Didn’t the some of the media and the GOP have alot to say about POTUS not meeting with any leaders. Looking at the pictures look like he met with some world leaders to me. So Mrs. Greenspan, Chuckie Todd and the others need to shut their freaking mouth up.

They were probably referring to those useless sit down photo-ops. Saw Anderson Cooper, Gergen and Zakaria acting all concerned as to why PBO didn’t meet with anyone but they failed to realize that he was too smart to fall into that trap. After putting Netanyahu in his place by ignoring his ‘demands’ for a face to face meeting, he wasn’t about to give the GOP ammunition by meeting with the muslim leaders. You could just picture the fake outrage from the Romney camp.

In any case meeting with the POTUS is a privilege and is not to be taken for granted. Plus PBO is pissed with some of those countries, especially Egypt, for the way they initially handled the protests.

doserange, This is TeaNN trying to stir up trouble, trying to stir up controversy because their ratings sucks. And Zakaria used to be the one with some common sense, the one who was after the facts, not ratings, but it seem even he has change since his suspension.

I guess the View suppose to be beneath A. Cooper, and the other news shows. But if you watch the news today, it is no different than the View. All they do is have pundits up there arguing. It used to be you would look forward to the news and that’s it. Now you have to have the news anchor giving their opinion, you have to have people up there analyzing what someone said and didn’t say,what they should have said. They have there entertainment news, there gossip, so Chuck Todd, Mrs. Greenspan, Anderson Cooper, Wolf, shows are no better than the View. As a matter of fact I imagine alot more people watch the View then these news shows.

A video has surfaced showing Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson (R) telling a Tea Party group back in June…”who better than me, who’s already finished one of the entitlement programs, to come up with programs to do away with Medicaid and Medicare?”